What nine months of pest season does to a house
Savannah’s season isn’t a season — it’s most of the year. Warmth and marsh humidity keep roaches, ants, spiders, earwigs, and silverfish active from early March well past Thanksgiving, and every hard rain pushes palmetto bugs out of the landscape beds and toward your door thresholds. A one-time spray in April is a pause, not a result.
The calls that come in most across the metro: American roaches (the famous palmetto bug) drifting in from porches and pine straw, Argentine ant trails that re-form within days of a store-bought spray, wolf spiders hunting the porch lights, and German roaches establishing in kitchens — a different, more serious job than the outdoor kinds.
Quarterly program vs. one-time cleanout
A cleanout knocks down what’s active right now — right answer for a move-in, a sudden wave after a storm, or a house that’s been sitting empty. The quarterly program is the standing defense: exterior barrier, entry-point touch-ups, and interior work only when something slips through. Most homes here end up on the program after one cleanout, because the marsh doesn’t stop sending replacements.
What the first visit looks like
Walk the exterior, check the usual harborage — under sinks, behind appliances, around the water heater — identify what’s present, then the written plan and price. Treatment starts only after you approve the number. From the historic district to the newest Pooler builds, one call gets an inspection on the calendar.